“Turning my head so I can look into his eyes, I strum my fingers across his cheek. Youre right. I think weve both had enough darkness. I want to live in light.”

“I know you probably feel like there's no color left in the world. Like there's no light, instead all darkness. But there's sunshine. There are colorful flowers all around us. And for me, you're the...”

“Because I want to know if I'm allowed to kiss your tears away. Because I want to be able to hold your hand. Because I like you.”

“Ive learned through the years that its not where you live, its the people who surround you that make you feel at home.”

“His lips brush my ear as his voice causes my body to come to attention. “If the night never ends, then there’s never a new day … and with a new day comes renewed hope, light.”

“I’ve learned through the years that it’s not where you live, it’s the people who surround you that make you feel at home.”

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”

“She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.”

“Over the summit, I saw the so-called Mono desert lying dreamily silent in the thick, purple light -- a desert of heavy sun-glare beheld from a desert of ice-burnished granite.”

“Love is a weapon of Light, and it has the power to eradicate all forms of darkness. That is the key. When we offer love even to our enemies, we destroy their darkness and hatred...”